• In this image made from Wednesday video provided by the Jordanian military via Roya TV, an air force pilot writes a message to Islamic State militants on a missile at the Mowafak Al-Salti air base in Azraq, Jordan. The military carried out airstrikes on Islamic State weapons depots and training sites on Thursday and Friday. | AP
    In this image made from Wednesday video provided by the Jordanian military via Roya TV, an air force pilot writes a message to Islamic State militants on a missile at the Mowafak Al-Salti air base in Azraq, Jordan. The military carried out airstrikes on Islamic State weapons depots and training sites on Thursday and Friday. | AP

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AMMAN – Jordan’s air force chief said on Sunday his country’s jet fighters had conducted 56 bombing raids in three days against Islamic State militants in northeast Syria, targeting key bases and arms depots.

Jordan stepped up its bombing of the jihadi group on Thursday in response to the brutal killing by Islamic State of a captured Jordanian pilot, and continued until Saturday.

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